Con­struc­tion of the new Bal­isi­er House - the head­quar­ters of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment - kicked off this morn­ing.

A post on PNM po­lit­i­cal leader and prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley's In­sta­gram page, shows Dr Row­ley, deputy po­lit­i­cal leader Ro­han Sinanan and gen­er­al sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings look­ing over the plans with the fore­man of the project.

The post states that pro­ceeds from the PNM's 10-car raf­fle go to­wards the con­struc­tion of our new par­ty head­quar­ters.

The fi­nal draw of the raf­fle is on Sat­ur­day 19th Jan­u­ary.

The new build­ing will be con­struct­ed on the same grounds at Tran­quil­li­ty Street, Port-of-Spain, on what is cur­rent­ly the car park.

The sod-turn­ing cer­e­mo­ny took place on Au­gust 30, 2018.

Then par­ty chair­man Franklin Khan had de­scribed the five-storey build­ing, which will in­clude un­der­ground park­ing, as a "self-sus­tain­ing" en­ti­ty.

The new struc­ture is ex­pect­ed to pro­vide of­fice space for par­ty op­er­a­tions but will al­so fea­ture rental spaces which will en­able the PNM to gen­er­ate a steady cash flow stream for the par­ty's longevi­ty.

The cur­rent Bal­isi­er House is to be re­fur­bished and used as a mu­se­um and archive li­brary.

Pho­to: In­sta­gram|DrKei­thRow­ley